نتایج جستجو برای: residential neighborhoods
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Unemployment also varies substantially from one residential area to another. For instance, among the 6,100 “block groups” (neighborhoods consisting of approximately 500 households and 0.33 square miles of land, on average) that make up the St. Louis metropolitan area, the unemployment rate in the year 2000 ranged from 0 percent in one neighborhood to 100 percent in another. © Catherine K arnow/...
PURPOSE Explore the importance of residential mobility and use of services outside neighborhoods when interventions targeting low-income families are planned and implemented. DESIGN Analysis of cross-sectional telephone household survey data on childhood mobility and school enrollment in four large distressed cities. SETTING Baltimore, Maryland; Detroit, Michigan; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
BACKGROUND There is accumulating evidence that circadian disruption, mediated by alterations in melatonin levels, may play an etiologic role in a wide variety of diseases. The degree to which light-at-night (LAN) and other factors can alter melatonin levels is not well-documented. Our primary objective was to evaluate the degree to which estimates of outdoor environmental LAN predict 6-sulftoxy...
The impact of the residential neighborhood on health and well-being is being increasingly recognized in behavioral medicine, with evidence for neighborhood-level effects that are independent of the individual characteristics of residents. This study addressed the possibility that the effects of neighborhood are due in part to exposure to community-wide stressors rather than variations inprotect...
We examine the housing market, residential mobility, and academic performance changes that occur soon after a school fails to achieve Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) (for the second time) in the Charlotte, NC school district. Charlotte is a school district with substantial opportunities for school choice and a number of oversubscribed, high quality schools. To comply with the 2002 No Child Left ...
Abstr act. An increasingly aging population, information technology developments and shift to high-rise residential neighborhoods combined with lack of aged facilities have led recently to a specific type of residential development in Korea. They appear in the form of silver towns integrated with smart technologies and targeted specifically at the aging population. The silver towns are increasi...
BACKGROUND Although a short-term effect of neighborhood characteristics on individual alcohol abuse has been demonstrated by a quasi-experimental residential mobility study, the obversed effect of alcohol problem involvement on place of residence and residential character has not been studied. We test the alcoholism effect on place of residence, and we also attempt to replicate the neighborhood...
BACKGROUND Available studies of the built environment and the BMI of children and youth suggest a contemporaneous association with neighborhood greenness in neighborhoods with high population density. The current study tests whether greenness and residential density are independently associated with 2-year changes in the BMI of children and youth. METHODS The sample included children and yout...
There are well-known Black-White disparities in adverse birth outcomes, health behaviors, and chronic diseases such as asthma, diabetes, and hypertension. These disparities hold across socioeconomic status and have remained stable for the past 50 years despite efforts to reduce them. This theoretical review argues that such disparities may be largely a function of residential segregation, ie, t...
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